This may seem to hard to believe, but recent scientific findings show that certain extract ingredients found in coffee beans are proving to have a positive effect on curing bad breath, by killing harmful bacteria in the mouth.
Professor Mel Rosenberg, at Israel’s Tel Aviv University, has been studying the effects of drinking coffee and has found that contrary to popular belief, drinking the brew from the seeds of the coffee plant, known as coffea Arabica, coffea canefora, and others, actually prohibit the bacteria from forming. This finding is contrary from most mouthwashes and other breath aids, which merely “mask” bad breath with various ingredients, including mint extract and eucalyptus oil.
Dr. Rosenberg, of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at TAU, did say however that because many people drink coffee mixed with milk and other substances (sugar or sweeteners), it causes the entire drink to “ferment” into a smelly stuff that is conducive to bacteria growth. Prof. Rosenberg went on to say:
“The lesson we learned here is one of humility. We expected coffee would cause bad breath, but there is something inside this magic brew that has the opposite effect”.
While many Americans drink black percolated coffee, which fits in line with the positive findings of Prof. Rosenberg’s study, many do not; and brews such as Café au lait (Coffee and milk) Café Cappuccino which have milk in them won’t work for maintaining good breath. It looks like drinking standard coffee shop perked java or even Turkish coffee (without sugar) may be the best way to avail one’s self to the coffee bean’s bacteria fighting qualities.
Naturally, eating onions or garlic prior to work or social engagements should be avoided, as well as heavy foods that might cause one to belch.
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